The Wairau Diversion

10/07/2023

Book talk, Sunday 23 July 10.00am. Might also chat about next novel – a horticultural heist caper that takes place at a garden festival in a town not completely unlike Blenheim.*

*This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead, or actual
events is entirely coincidental.

(Link to buy tickets in my Instagram bio)

22/06/2023

15/12/2022

This nice man said my book was “downright hilarious”, which I do like
(link in bio, surely)

28/10/2022

.macleod and Greg O’Brien working with intent

31/08/2022

Partially headless author to talk at Foundation

31/08/2022

The banded rail, or moho pereru, as sketched and painted by .nz in Drawn to the wild. “Nervous and high-stepping, it will sprint for cover at the slightest squelch of a cockle in the mud.”

19/08/2022

Review in last week’s Listener

19/08/2022

Review in last week’s Listener

19/08/2022

😄

15/08/2022

Last Friday night in Barrytown, Mad Doggerel Cabaret. Try and see them somewhere soon

09/08/2022

More burbling, this time from a ladder at the Woolstore in Wellington, with , plenty of books out the door…

09/08/2022

Last week with Gareth and Louise and in Havelock North Library. Great night, thanks heaps !!

04/08/2022

Tuesday night in Auckland at to launch The Last Letter of Godfrey of Cheathem with

30/07/2022

He really had a thing going on with that painting. And he was surprisingly patient and kind about promoting my book. Never once said I was humiliating myself

30/07/2022

Had another chat with the dog before he died. Will repost pic of him. He was lovely

29/07/2022

My friend Ian arrives in NZ next week, joining me on my little book tour. We may bicker, but his book is awesomely good.

19/07/2022

This arrived

17/07/2022

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10/06/2022

01/06/2022

The package containing Godfrey Cheathem’s last letter also included a letter from his sister, Rosemary.

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24/05/2022

I’ve been filming some of the conversations the dog and I have been having about Godfrey Cheathem. (Non-dog speakers see transcript.)

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19/05/2022

Half way through this, by . Going slowly, still getting a handle on things … maybe I still will be at the end. Brave, sad, funny, confronting, brilliant.

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17/05/2022

Discovered this small, perfectly formed bookshop at the bottom end of Auckland’s Parnell Road. New to me – lots of art and design, good fiction – and supremely elegant bags with sticky bits to seal them. Took these home, going to start with Grand by

Lamplight Books

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12/05/2022

I’ll never forget the day the package arrived…
“prepared by Ms Cheathem shortly before she died, with instructions that it be delivered to me in the event of her death. I was intrigued, and had no idea what exactly the documents would reveal.”

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